Commit cef04cdc authored by Mickaël Salaün's avatar Mickaël Salaün Committed by Shuah Khan

Documentation/dev-tools: Use reStructuredText markups for kselftest

Include and convert kselftest to the Sphinx format.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
parent 55c70f11
......@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ whole; patches welcome!
kmemleak
kmemcheck
gdb-kernel-debugging
kselftest
.. only:: subproject and html
......
======================
Linux Kernel Selftests
======================
The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/
directory. These are intended to be small tests to exercise individual code
......@@ -15,29 +17,34 @@ hotplug test is run on 2% of hotplug capable memory instead of 10%.
Running the selftests (hotplug tests are run in limited mode)
=============================================================
To build the tests:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests
To build the tests::
make -C tools/testing/selftests
To run the tests::
make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests
To run the tests:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests
To build and run the tests with a single command, use::
To build and run the tests with a single command, use:
$ make kselftest
make kselftest
- note that some tests will require root privileges.
Note that some tests will require root privileges.
Running a subset of selftests
========================================
=============================
You can use the "TARGETS" variable on the make command line to specify
single test to run, or a list of tests to run.
To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests
To run only tests targeted for a single subsystem::
make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=ptrace run_tests
You can specify multiple tests to build and run:
$ make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
You can specify multiple tests to build and run::
make TARGETS="size timers" kselftest
See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all
possible targets.
......@@ -46,13 +53,15 @@ possible targets.
Running the full range hotplug selftests
========================================
To build the hotplug tests:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug
To build the hotplug tests::
make -C tools/testing/selftests hotplug
To run the hotplug tests::
To run the hotplug tests:
$ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug
make -C tools/testing/selftests run_hotplug
- note that some tests will require root privileges.
Note that some tests will require root privileges.
Install selftests
......@@ -62,13 +71,15 @@ You can use kselftest_install.sh tool installs selftests in default
location which is tools/testing/selftests/kselftest or a user specified
location.
To install selftests in default location:
$ cd tools/testing/selftests
$ ./kselftest_install.sh
To install selftests in default location::
To install selftests in a user specified location:
$ cd tools/testing/selftests
$ ./kselftest_install.sh install_dir
cd tools/testing/selftests
./kselftest_install.sh
To install selftests in a user specified location::
cd tools/testing/selftests
./kselftest_install.sh install_dir
Running installed selftests
===========================
......@@ -79,8 +90,10 @@ named "run_kselftest.sh" to run the tests.
You can simply do the following to run the installed Kselftests. Please
note some tests will require root privileges.
cd kselftest
./run_kselftest.sh
::
cd kselftest
./run_kselftest.sh
Contributing new tests
======================
......@@ -96,8 +109,8 @@ In general, the rules for selftests are
* Don't cause the top-level "make run_tests" to fail if your feature is
unconfigured.
Contributing new tests(details)
===============================
Contributing new tests (details)
================================
* Use TEST_GEN_XXX if such binaries or files are generated during
compiling.
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